Archive for 2005

SEO Marketing Boom

8:27 PM
Search engine optimization (SEO) and Search engine marketing (SEM) are becoming more recognized form of online advertising for ever-growing number of companies. Over 12 billion dollars will be spent this year in the United States alone. In Australia this figure is close to 90 million dollars. Many...

MSN Book Search

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According to internal Microsoft research over 50 percent of online queries go unanswered on search engines. To address this issue Microsoft intention is to to launch MSN Book Search. This will greatly improve finding the exact information including the content from the books, academic materials, periodicals...

Search Engine Rankings

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According to recent search engine rankings conducted by ComScore Networks Google accounted for 37.3% of searches (up 1.2% from July 2005 search engine rankings), Yahoo! had 29.7% of the search engine traffic, followed by MSN 15.8% , AOL Search 9.6% and Ask Jeeves 6%. Google is also recognized as the...

Spam Blog Crusade

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There is a spam blog crusade going out there. And some people are attempting to explore this trend from a commercial perspective creating spam blog directories and generating lots of traffic to their sites where they usually have AdSense or other type of advertising. Just recently I have seen on Technorati...

Interview with SEO Consultant

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I share belief with Terrence Gordon from Performance SEO that Search Engine Optimization will become more of a controlled environment and less of a "wild west" as more companies realize its value and start investing larger sums of money. In his recent interview he has been discussing the value of a...

Relevance in Search Results

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The ongoing pursuit by Google for greater relevance in search engine results has been shown in Patent filing #20050071741 - Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data. From now on Google algorithm will analyze the history of your web pages and the history of links to your website. All the information...

SEO Principles

9:51 PM
The following is an excerpt from Infoworld.comWhat are some basic SEO principles?A Web site built with users in mind is likely to fare well with the software "spiders" that search engines use to index content and rank sites, Thurow says. The three building blocks of such a site are: -- Text: Use content...

Google Success and Failure

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When searching the Internet one can find lots of optimism there. Google reveals about 74,400,000 results for the word Failure and about 201,000,000 results for the word Success. Perhaps this is why I am so attracted to the Internet. I just wonder how many times the word success has been used to try...

SEO Seminar

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Advanet is conducting an entry level seminar in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne January 23-26 about search engine optimisation SEO. Subjects covered are: Brand development online, strategic web marketing plan and how to leverage SEO to build your brand online.Making your company products and services...

Google Link Command

11:43 PM
Many of us know by now that to find the inbound links to a website we can use the Google link command as follows: link:www.yourdomain.com. However as of late only less than 10% of inbound links is reported by Google. There is lots of speculation about why is that, but no one knows the full answer yet....

Searching Books

12:15 AM
With Google Print and Amazon Search Inside the Book you can have limited full text and full image access to hundreds of thousands of books. However there are limits to what you can do with this information. You are unable to save or print or copy and paste the scanned pages from books. Google started...

Web Analysis Under Pressure

6:52 PM
Nerds On Site Inc. has announced that their current online hit counter service will be discontinued due to the old code which is not efficient enough to handle over million hits per day. The new hit counter web application will be significantly upgraded and be available online by May 9th. When the online...

Google Adsense News

9:53 PM
Internet is gradually becoming a billboard for Google's ads. Like it or not, it will stay that way. And as long as advertising revenues are helping small web publishers it is a positive outcome for most of us. Since March 2005, Google allows to "accurately disclose the amount of Google's gross payments"....

Elusive Google Sandbox

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Google created the sandbox new website filter starting in March, 2004. The main reason was to stop spam related websites from adding large number of purchased links, to achive high rankings for their keywords from the date of launch.Only some websites are placed in the sandbox, but it happens more frequently...

Yahoo supports Wikipedia

8:58 PM
Yahoo Search engine will supply hardware and other resources to the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to support that nonprofit organization's free Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Yahoo Search also will feature abstracts of Wikipedia content at the top of relevant search results in the form of shortcuts, which...

Search Results and Blog Power

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Blogs are achieving much higher search engine rankings than most websites from the same business sector. As an example when you type in Google the two word phrase business world you will see that blog www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com ranks # 5 out of 439,000,000 results, just few positions behind...

Search Engine Marketing Training

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Search Engine Marketing Training has been launched from January 2005. It is the first SEO learn by doing course in Indonesia and is available by email for other countries. It offers tutored and online self-study courses in search engine marketing and optimization. The curriculum covers the subjects...

Increase Website Visibility

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Your website search engine position will improve by enhancing the meta tags, title and document text. Increasing your website visibility is our main goal which can be achived by following the SEO Best Practice.Considering the increasing complexity of search engines algorithms below are some of the factors,...
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